The Future of Evanescence... What Now?

The multi-awarded rock band Evanescence have ended their Winter Tour. An unprecedented 4 stop concert after the 3 year hiatus. Fans have welcomed Jen Majura as new guitarist for the band after Terry Balsamo left the band on August 2015. Amy Lee have stated that there are no new songs for Evanescence but they will tour much in 2016. Lee also announces that she will have a new solo material for 2016.

Amy Lee, lead vocalist of Evanescence

That’s the brief news about Evanescence. Their fans have been trying to figure out when will the band release a new material after an almost 6 year album drought. Some fans say that Evanescence’s 4th album will be less successful than that of their third album as the band is currently independent from any labels but Concord Bicycle Music have the distributing rights of Ev’s album. Some fans say that Evanescence will be more creative in their material but will be less successful in charts. Some fans want the band to sign up for a new label to boost up the band’s performance in the charts. The fans have accused the band’s former label, Wind Up records for sabotaging Ev’s creativity, pertaining to the poor promotion of Evanescence’s singles from their sophomore album, The Open Door and their self-titled album.

Concord Bicycle Music has distributing rights over Evanescence's materials

Fans are getting divided. Evanescence’s future is in Amy Lee’s hands whether to sign up for a new label or not, whether release a new album or not. Who knows? The pressure is in her hands. So sad, Evanescence never got the attention of the world audience in their third album like they used to be during their debut and sophomore album, I think.

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MTV Musical March Madness 2015 Predictions

The 6th annual MTV Musical March Madness starts now. MTV has changed all its criteria. Letting the fans nominate the artists - since 2014. From rock band/artists to rock-inspired artists slugging it out for the crown. From 64 to 32 artists and fan clubs rivaling to get the championship. Palaye Royale is not nominated for the competition, leaving the championship and trophy vacant. Now, I have my predictions based on experiences and the strength of the artists' fans to upset a poll.

Round 1 of voting started, March 16 and ends on March 19. Here is the list of match-ups on the starting round. I wanna categorize it to East and West since MTV has removed the regions in this year's competitions. Also, I put numbers for you to know who's the top seed since MTV (also removed it to this year's contest)

East Region
(#1) Paramore vs (#16) Charli XCX
(#8) Rae Sremurd vs (#9) Lorde
(#5) 30 Seconds To Mars vs (#12) Bleachers
(#4) 5 Seconds of Summer vs (#13) Haim
(#6) Rixton vs (#11) Bea Miller
(#3) Lana Del Rey vs (#14) Wiz Khalifa
(#7) Kelly Clarkson vs (#10) Echosmith
(#2) Fall Out Boy vs (#15) Joey Bada$$

West Region
(#1) One Direction vs (#16) Ryn Weaver
(#8) Imagine Dragons vs (#9) Ke$ha
(#5) Tokio Hotel vs (#12) Mark Ronson
(#4) Ed Sheeran vs (#13) Tove Lo
(#6) Demi Lovato vs (#11) Maroon 5
(#3) Fka Twigs vs (#14) Action Bronson
(#7) Nick Jonas vs (#10) Misterwives
(#2) Rihanna vs (#15) Walk the Moon

Round 1 started wildly as fans voted for their favorite artists. In the first part of round 1, the East Region handled the competition properly as top seed Paramore bested out Charli XCX. Powerhouses, 30 Seconds To Mars and Fall Out Boy seems to easily defeat their rivals. Lorde is leading against Rae with double digits. 5 Seconds of Summer who made it to the Sweet 16 round last year made a sweet lead against Haim. Debuters in this contests, Bea Miller upsets Rixton. Lana and Kelly seems to trail off to their rivals.

Meanwhile in the West Region, top seed One Direction is leading over Ryn Weaver. 2012 champ, Tokio Hotel is crushing Mark Ronson's hope to reach the 2nd round while 2013 champ Ed Sheeran is having a neck to neck race with singer Tove Lo. Maroon 5 is leading against Demi while Action is leading against Fka. Nick Jonas, unshockingly, trails off against Misterwives. The most shocking of all in the West Region, #2 Rihanna is handled by #15 powerhouse, Walk the Moon.

ROUND 1 RESULTS AND START OF ROUND 2/SWEET 16 ROUND

The first round of MTV's Musical March Madness is having a full of upsets -- like it never happened before. In the East Region, every expectations are met except for Kelly Clarkson who made an early goodbye because Echosmith have race against her in the last hours of the competition. So the match-up for East Region is this.

(#1) Paramore vs (#9) Lorde
(#5) 30 Seconds to Mars vs (#4) 5 Seconds of Summer
(#11) Bea Miller vs (#3) Lana Del Rey
(#10) Echosmith vs (#2) Fall Out Boy

Upsets happened in the West Region as #16 seed Ryn Weaver defeats top seed One Direction with 1,200 votes only. She will fight Imagine Dragons who defeated Ke$ha in the first round. The biggest rematch is happening right now as 2012 champ Tokio Hotel takes on 2013 champ Ed Sheeran. Who will give justice to the heated 2013 Final Four match-ups? Is it the Aliens? Or the Sheerios? You decide! Demi Lovato upset Maroon 5 in the last minutes of Round 1 and will take on Action who easily defeated Fka. Misterwives upset Nick Jonas while #15 Walk the Moon upset #2 Rihanna.  So the match-up for West Region is this.

(#16) Ryn Weaver vs (#8) Imagine Dragons
(#5) Tokio Hotel vs (#4) Ed Sheeran
(#6) Demi Lovato vs (#14) Action Bronson
(#10) Misterwives vs (#15) Walk the Moon

Round 2 is way differ than the previous Round 1. In the East, top seed Paramore is leading against Lorde. 2013 runner-up 30 Seconds to Mars is having a lead over 5 Seconds of Summer. Lana Del Rey trails off Bea Miller while Fall Out Boy is having some neck to neck competition with Echosmith.

In the West Region, everything seems so expected as Imagine Dragons trails off Ryn Weaver. 2012 champ Tokio Hotel seems having their justice serves right as they crushing Ed Sheeran's bid for 2nd time championship. Demi seems handling Action very well and #15 Walk the Moon is doing their usual job to upset #10 Misterwives.

PREDICTIONS

As the Round 2 of Musical March Madness still ongoing, I have made some predictions in this competitions. In the East Region, Round 3 match ups will be like this, according to current results. (#1) Paramore will take on (#5) 30 Seconds to Mars. (#3) Lana Del Rey will face off (#2) Fall Out Boy. In the West Region, (#8) Imagine Dragons will face off (#5) Tokio Hotel and (#6) Demi Lovato will fight (#15) Walk the Moon.

In this ROUND 3/ELITE 8 MATCH UPS, (East Region) 30 Seconds of Mars will have a guts to defeat co-powerhouse band, Paramore as what Echelons did on the 2013 MMM. As the perennial powerhouse, Fall Out Boy will defeat Lana Del Rey with ease.

In the wild West Region, (#5) Tokio Hotel will defeat (#8) Imagine Dragons. Being the 2012 champ, Tokio Hotel is a no newbie in this way but his path to success is controversial. 2013 Final Four relaunched marked the rigging of polls by the TH fans. One IP address votes 22, 22, 22, 23 and 25 for Tokio Hotel. (Also, remember the CAPTCHA) They made it to the Elite 8 round of 2014 MMM. Demi Lovato will take over perennial powerhouse Walk the Moon. Demi Lovato has a lot of fans out there and in other poll, they were leading with a big lead against their rivals.

In FINAL FOUR MATCH UPS, 30 Seconds to Mars will defeat Fall Out Boy as what kind of experience they have been through. Demi Lovato will defeat Tokio Hotel. Well Demi's fans are well prepared and has a sense of unity that may upset Tokio Hotel. Just like what they did to Maroon 5 in the First Round.

THE CHAMPIONSHIP BATTLE will be tough as 30 Seconds To Mars battling Demi Lovato but the Echelons will survive Demi's fans as they'll crown as champions.

Rebellion

My second post this year. I know this start of new year has ups and downs already. I have experienced, experiencing and will experience failure, betrayal, disappointment and sadness to name a few. I've been a rebel. I know I'm a rebel. I cannot take myself on the majority. Majority isn't always right --- at times. I always remember myself back then. I've been a rebel since then.

When I'm in my 10th grade, my fight for myself has been escalated. My friends are demoted to our rival section. I cannot defend myself --- 'cause I'm only one. I found my ally --- have a heart of a rebel. She, yes, she. She's been at her rebellion for 4 years while I have been in my rebellion for 2 years. I  joined in her crusade. Mutualism, we say. We are  in each other's hands. Helping each other. Yeah, we've been through highs and lows. We have shared stories and understood each other. She have a boyfriend back then. Now, they're married. We helped each other. Why we rebel? We are rebelling against our classmates. Our class, We're so tired of their whines and self proclaiming righteousness. I'm so tired of their God-calling and worshipping while their attitude sucks great time. I'm so tired of their strategies, Of their inconsistencies and failure.

Courage is the key. 

Another friend of mine got into our rebellion. He's quiet and he hates our class back then. Plasticity, pride an lack of respect and understanding urged him to join us. His reasons --- were almost the same with us.  We are having our mission to attack them backwards. Backstabbing is the battle. Exchanging of the same opinions and points of view. We have reminisced the peak of our rebellion when our friend was on our side. Now, they're gone. We have to keep moving. We have to fight to let them know what's wrong in what they always do. I've been a rebel, not through guns and bombs but papers and pen. I used my pen to let the world know what kind of life I've been through. Thanks to the Internet for its availability. I can now say what I feel. Here in Blogger, I posts things about the errors of the people around me. In Wattpad, I made characters to symbolize them to show to the people that every people you meet. There's a lesson you learned. I killed them in my sorry. I wish I could do that in reality.

A pen acts like a sword.

My friend, the girl with a rebel heart tells the bullshits of our class to her friends and relatives. Yes, she is a friendly one, opposite and contrary to what our classmates described her. She make friends. She'll tell our story and our classmates. Even her boyfriend understands us. My classmate, the silent one; I'm hoping that he may get ways to tell how bad our life is. There are 44 in our class. There are 38 of them, the majority. 2 of them absorbed to the rival section and 3 of them are us,  are rebels and one of them are neutral.

Recently, I took a picture with a guy I admire [in studies]. I had hope, it'll get uploaded soon but one of my classmate deleted our picture for some bullshit reasons. I'm very mad at that time but still  managed to smile. I told it to my comrades and helped me to get another picture with the guy. Yeah, that's why I love them.

Taking selfie. 

I know this is just only part of my life I've been through. We, the rebels of our class, is still fighting against this cruel life of this world. We are the rebellion.

Rebellion is the ignition for the spreading of the truth.

Unmasking the Secrets of "Alpha" Group

It's been a long time since I last posted here since September. I am talking about a certain group in my high school days that up until now are showing their childish attitude. I've been naming this group as "Alpha" because it is what they called our whole class when we have this some sort of... fancy drill. So here are the people within "Alpha" described in their over-all attitude.

The Christians

So this is the strongest worshiping people in the group. They praise God and share Bible verses. But despite their strong worship to Him, you would be turn off to their foul attitude. Why? Because, they try to put you down and leave you no rights to speak or resist. You just have to follow them for their own good. There were born again Christians. Some of them baptized without their parents' consent. Some of them are Catholics who, in short time, will become born again Christians too. The most disappointing point is, they are fed up with God's words and they do not love the people around them. They don't know that they must love the people as their brothers and sisters (as what Jesus taught us), not some piece of bullshit.

What if these Christians sacrifice like this Orthodox priest from Ukraine, preventing the clash between the police force and the protesters in Kiev to ensure the peace? Of course, they won't do that.

The Lovebirds

Every room won't miss any lovers. Publicly showing their affair, holding hands and the like. To be concern of, the place where they belong is a conservative community! I understand them that they may suck each other out and fuck wherever they want but hey! This is a school not a fucking lovers' community! You may have the rights but you may show your love outside this school! Not inside of the school premises where every people are looking for you. I understand them that they love in such their age whether they are legal or not but hey, give respect to the school and to yourself. To the lovers back then and now: There's nothing wrong in love but please do it in a right place and in a right way. Show respect to the school as it pays respect to you. There's no harm trying.

"We need to lock up Sarah in her room and let's have our champagne..." - Caleb Smith to his wife, Termination Point (2007)

What if these lovebirds act like this? None or few would do that.

The Crab Minded People

Some of my classmates are thinking of making it to the Top 10 of our class. Of course, each of one has our strategy to get there but some of us has this crab mentality - a people who will try everything to keep that person down - comparable to set of crabs trying to escape from a bucket.  Yeah, most of them are trying to impress our teacher. Some of them are well, showing their fake attitude to get our teacher's attention back then. It's very disappointing that I sensed something like this when we have some sort of-uh, reunion party. It's very sad that they won't change. Hope these people would learn what they've done.

Need some rest before fucking up people.

The "Leave Them Alone" People

Mostly composed of guys but have some girls in their line. These people when it goes to activities or some sort of "help us guys", they are just shrugging shoulders and crap. I hate 'em. Period.

The Quiet People

Most of these people are my friends so I gave respect to them. They are not bad people and I love them, yes, they made mistakes, but you'll see in their faces that they made a mistake, not the kind of people I mentioned above. You can feel them that they are God fearing and they act like what a Christian must do. They don't leave you alone and most of all, they put studies first up until now. They put their job first before their love life. Kudos to all of you, my friends.

There you have it! Hope you learn so much from their mistakes that I observed.

My Blogger is My New Journal

Crap. I didn't expect that. My journal (or let's say diary) got lost today. We held a forum a week ago. In that forum, we shared our experiences and hatred to somebody. We promised to ourselves that we kept our diaries, clean and safe. After a week, unexpectedly, my diary got lost. Fuck. There are so many secrets indicated there but those secrets were not mine. Those secrets I wrote in my diary, are issues and rumors that became trending for us in a one year span. We are trying to retrieve that diary up until now. (Permanent status to be determine.)

While I'm writing this, I have an idea struck me. My blogger is my new diary. Securing every secrets I know. It's so difficult to let others know their secrets. 

"Secrets took a long time to be heard. It must be well kept." 

This is just an appetizer post by the way.

Behind The Mask

"Without a mask, where will you hide?
 Can't find yourself? Lost in your lie."
                                              - Everybody's Fool, Evanescence

While I'm spending my time on vacation, I decided to stay in my friend's residence. I've been taking my vacation since last month and as the time goes on, more and more secrets exposed and their hidden sins, time by time, are ready to expose at anytime. There are so many people in the world that pretends to be kind but their true identity and attitude is hidden behind their masks.

So, it all starts here. A friend of mine told me that her aunt owe their family of million of dollars to them. According to my friend, because of her mother is blood related to her aunt, her mother is freely, without no doubt, gives her money to her sister. Her aunt promised to pay the money in due time but years have passed, her aunt didn't paid her mother and apparently their situation switched. Then, their family is rich and her aunt's family is poor but now, her aunt is rich. We decided to go to her aunt's house.My jaws dropped and her aunt's residence is amazing.

So, fast forward, I'm going pissed off as her cousins badly treats her. She never goes with them because they don't want her to come with them to and also, she is being put aside off their attention. Now, she doesn't access her facebook account because her cousin hacked it to do so. As she doesn't access her account now, I got alarmed and changed my password as a precaution. I learned so many things from her family. Her family has so many problems and it all come to this. She told me, "She cannot brag her house because it came from the money who isn't theirs."

Also, they're acting as a socialite even they're not to, they have so many liabilities to my friend! I'm already pissed off right now, I don't like this anymore and I'm so fucked up of  their attitudes.

I pray to Greek gods and goddesses, to Norse gods and goddesses and to Jesus that let her aunt's family know the truth to let them change for the better future.

A Wattpad Writer's Advices

Here I am again, writing for my hobby as a writer in Wattpad. Wattpad is a site where you can read, comment, vote and write your own story. The site is famously get its place in the world wide web by the Canadians and I want to thank them because I am able to share my stories with them.

Here we go, I want to tell you some of my experiences while writing a story in Wattpad and I want to give you some useful advice in writing a story. I hope you learn things from this post.

1. Do a draft of your story

Yes, most of the authors started their career by writing in a draft. Just spill out all of your imaginations. When you thought, there's something wrong in your draft then change it! There's no wrong in changing and edit when you know there's wrong! While writing, don't forget to check your grammar, it's important!

2. Decide what influences your book cover in Wattpad should have

This really depends upon the genre,the taste and the dominant genre in your place or community. Here in my community, one of my friends urged me to use Korean artists in my book cover in Wattpad to get more reads. But I, as being influenced by the culture of the United States, insist that I'll use American (or European artists to portray my story) for my book cover as planned. Follow your deeds. (Hell, I don't use Korean artists because its too dominant in my community.)

3. Be sure you update your story
When you created a long story (or a novel), be sure you update your story regularly. It helps you to keep your readers updated to you. They'll be disappointed when you took a long time to update your story (that I always noticed to all writers I follow in Wattpad)

This last advice is a little tricky but I hope you understand.

4. If your country has two or more official languages, choose your local language to gain more reads to your story!
Yeah, this is the greatest mistake I've ever committed in my writing career, I used English in my story because it's planned but I need to change it because no one's reading it. That leave me, 4 months to change the whole story to the local language and hiatus to create a new chapter of my story. 

I hope that's enough. Because I did a lot of fucking mistakes in writing a story, I wrote this one for you. Another piece of advice, when your job goes to the scene, you have no choice but to do your job! You have to update or write when you have a free time and when you have no free time 'cause your busy, well, it's on your luck now how to be an active writer. Your writing career is on your hands.